Recent content by JBCrowson

Welcome, and well done ditching the AI. If you post things in the critique requests area, people will usually read and offer thoughts. For anything you might want to publish someday that is best as it has different visibility way from this site, and doesn't count as publishing a piece of work...

I agree with those who've said it could work, depending on your skill as a writer. What I would add is that the more unusual your structure / POV, the harder it is to pull it off. I believe this is because when we write, we draw on everything we've read to some degree, and so we have more...

The Council of Elrond is a planning meeting of sorts. Do we use the ring, hide the ring or destroy the ring? Ok we're destroying it, so who and how? And of course it all goes pear shaped... With reference to your comment on getting the players together for such a meeting, Tolkien had Elrond...

Like Skip, I have not needed to reference days of the week or months as yet (2.5 books into the series). If I did I would probably have to come up with something complex as my world has 4 moons, each of which is the embodiment of a different god, siblings of the sun god. I have an historical...

I've always loved dragons, especially ancient, wise, morally ambivalent ones. Nicol Bolas is a cool supervillain in my view (from MTG for those not familiar).

I agree with the dragon, that if the plan is discussed ahead of implementation, it needs to not work in some way, otherwise you've removed all the tension from the plot. If the plan isn't discussed, it may still fail though, since it is unlikely the planners will be able to foresee all...

On a related note, you maybe talking about your current WIP too much when: your friend asks you if you're bringing your MC as your +1 to their wedding... ...and they don't need to ask about dietary requirements Your partner suddenly changes your nick name to the antagonist in your WIP

This is intended as a light hearted thread... You know you've done too much world building when: You just plotted a dozen short stories to explain the back story of a character in the backstory of another character who appears in a plot arc you decided to cut last month. You need to add an...

Welcome Mirion, you have stumbled upon great riches.

Welcome Cat, hope you enjoy hanging out. If my own whiskers were twitching right you are thinking your time here might ease you towards writing, sharing, perhaps even publishing some of your work. If so good luck, and I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

I get plenty popping into my head for in-world ideas for events historical, backstories for minor characters and so on. One or two have hopped over and nibbled their way into the main plot arcs for later in the series. As an example: A man had a father possessed (in both senses) of a powerful...

No not at all, but neither does it mean what someone sees in a piece of writing should be given (too) much weight.

Navel gazing your writing in a spongy place - are you writing in the bath again? FWIW (the square root of zero) I think post modern literary analysis sucks. What people see in writing says as much about them and what they bring to the reading, as it does about what is in the text.

My take is that they (beat sheets) are neither inherently good or bad, but like all tools developed to help writers, they do not suit everyone. There are many different ways people go about writing. Some hack out a rough then hone it over successive revisions, some go over the first scene or...

As with all world building ideas, everything will depend on your execution of it. I look forward to hearing more of your progress / reading samples of your craft.